Outsider Storytellers! It Won’t Kill You To Read Something Real… Will It?
Astrology in real life
I am overstimulated with Mercury in Sagittarius squaring Jupiter and Uranus. I got wound up talking to my husband about storytelling which is most definitely a Sagittarius / Jupiter topic. I didn’t realize just how stimulated I got until it hit me two hours later, I was still shaking. I feel like I’ve drank a lot of coffee.
You might think a person should not get so angry about telling a (true) story. I would probably agree with you if I wasn’t me.
All stories are not sweet. Some of us have stories with an edge and that edge may be sharp. My husband’s stories hit you like a brick to the head. You may heave when you read them but so what?
I appreciate the skill it takes to write. I appreciate the craft it takes to construct a balanced piece not likely to offend but these rules and standards should not be applied to an outsider storyteller like myself or my husband.
“They’re babies,” I said, speaking of people who attempt to censor us. “They’re children. They want to pick the marshmallows from the Lucky Charms and just have that. No! We should not do that. Have the whole story, son of a bitch! Grow up! Have the grown up story even if it challenges you.”
He was quiet so I went on, pontificating. “Look. There are plenty of people who can figure out how to construct a piece and get it published in the New Yorker. There are plenty of people who know how to produce a show for Frontline that is just so. You know what they do. You’ve seen it so let them do that! That’s fine but it’s got nothing to do with us, does it? Our stories are for grown-ups. Grown-ups! If you want to pick through food, have the beans but not the peas and whatever the hell your problem is, then go ahead but me and you – we serve a robust meal and that’s just how it is.”
16 Responses to “Outsider Storytellers! It Won’t Kill You To Read Something Real… Will It?”
I get this. I also construct my work so that it is likely to be published and that the client,whether a business or Government department is satisfied. Working on a high profile issue at the moment, I have uncovered something that needs to be revealed for what it is.A robust meal indeed. I just hope that this wide-mouthed Frog can swallow the likely consequences.
Cappy Moon from the 6th says you each the crackers with the marshmallows and you *should* each more crackers than marshmallows.
Angie
Am over stimulated too
*applause* I value the truth above all else and feel insulted and disgusted by the watered-down treatment.
Oh, man–this is on my mind today. One of my siblings has been ragging on my mother: “You and dad haven’t grieved the siblings you lost as children.”
Hard truth is that my mother didn’t like her sibling and never grieved because “she was mean to me and I wasn’t sad when she died.” My mother has been living with her feelings about it for 60 years–but told me, “I can’t tell her that, I could never tell her that.”
It’s too bad she can’t. She can’t tell her own story the way she wants. I can relate to that. I feel it, too.
Rock on!
I love the lucky charms and marshmallows metaphor!
So true, I used to be like that. I also used to be averse to loud noises and overtly angry people, now I am an angry person and love loud noises. For example- knee jerk, I used to hate Lewis Black stand up just cause of his abrasive presentation. Now I understand the whole persona AND why he’s so damn angry.
And, I eat ALL my lucky charms now.
I’m a picky eater, but decidedly non-picky with my stories. Give it to me raw and real: blood, guts, mud, bugs, and all.
Now THAT’S a meal! 
yeah!
; )
Ah, Elsa – this topic touches me deeply! I own a new-age shop and send out a monthly newsletter to roughly 1,400 people. I pick and choose just how I present metaphysical subject matter related to current events (good example = the pole shift) lest I offend or scare someone – and lose their patronage. I also have an “inner circle” of about 25 who get my messages delivered “hard core” and un-self-censored. Cuz they can handle it, you see?
But Oh! How the mass media is handling the bird die-off if fcking KILLING me! Because in case you didn’t know, species die off all the time, ALL THE TIME, birds apparently have been falling out of the sky off and on fairly constantly and we just haven’t noticed. HAVEN’T NOTICED! I was just screaming into the phone earlier today, talking with my sister in law, saying “A flock of a thousand f-ing FLAMINGOS could fall down out of the sky, dead, in Times Square and they would just be like “Oh, this happens all the time you just haven’t noticed. Nothing to see here, move along …”
AUGH! Oh, they think we are so STUPID!
Gee, thanks for letting me get that off my chest sweetie!
Laura
My husband and I have very different taste in movies. He likes both Oliver North and Spike Lee. I can’t stand either and I find their movies misogynistic. But I understand why my husband like them. In my opinion, Oliver and Lee view the world in a hypermale viewpoint. When viewing the world from a strictly male viewpoint, it is violent, competitive, ruthless, and, yes, misogynistic. They are speaking the truth as how they see it; it just isn’t my truth.
For example, my sister and I were talking about men. My sister said, “the problem with men is that they think they rule the world.” I was much moved by this statement and repeated it latter to a group of female attorneys. They stared at me in shock and said as one, “Phyllis, men do rule the world.” I had to laugh and said, “I guess that explains my struggles in this world, I simply do share that viewpoint. Men do not rule my world.”
We all have stories. As long as we are truthful to ourselves, our stories are important. Likewise, it is important to listen to other people’s stories. It provides us with another perspective.
For me, the best stories are always those which present unanswerable (?) questions, unsolvable dilemmas. Life itself is an enigma, why should its stories be otherwise?
i can’t learn about reality if i don’t take it in. and what else would i want to base my idea of meaning from?
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bahahahaha! I love this post!
I find myself writing about a big taboo subject for this art magazine…and all those years of art history are right out of the window – I don’t give a crap if it’s not how critics normally write/deliberate! f*ck ‘em!